Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:37:46 03/07/01
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Hi Dann: Of course your examples and statements are clear and known for everybody here with some decent knowledge of scientific method. If only we could keep ourselves always inside that kind of formal, protocolized kind of reasonning,m a lot of missunderstandings in all kind of realms could be avoided, including this little, unimportant area of chess computers, but in fact we cannot and even I am not sure it would be preferable. Even inside the realms of sciences there an incredible number of logila mistakes, false asumptions, debates aroused from passion, etc... Fact is we must move in a day to day basis with scarce info, few time to examine and nevertheless to make some judgements. These can be inside or outside the cone of truth, yes, but then the debate appears and other people with perhaps other not more accurate but different impressions gives his view and in a way we reach, as a collective entity, some kind of agreement, practical, perhaPS not accurate but enough for our purposes IN THE MOMENT. In other words, not only science but even common knowledege is less a matter of an individual than a matter of a collectivity looking for an answer for a determinate moment and with just a transient validity. If this statment is correct, then our appreciation of the judgment or impressions of everybody should be less rigid, not as if everybody should deliver here a complete, full, databased statement to be considered worth of a reading. I think the opposite is more humane and practical: you just take all kind of impressions, with or without data, with or without a full development, with or without maths and then with all that as a feedback everybody can reformulate his own first vision and offer a new one. Is what U have done with gandal evaluation;: I add my fist impresison, the opposite judgments of Mogens, the statistics offerecd by other people and so NOW I have another, richer impression, probably more inside the cone of truth. A pleasure to debate with you Fernando
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